The 365 Commitment

What Will We Discover

I sort of wonder sometimes if you strip everything away, what will be left? It seems that if you remove all the non essentials from yourself and your life you will end up only with the core remaining pieces for good or bad. This last week has been that way for me. All of the unnecessary parts of my life have been slowly removed and now I find myself with only the core pieces to deal with.

Here is the interesting part, what will I discover about myself during this period of time? I am unable to fill it with the things I normally do, so now I am completely on my own. I can choose to be productive or to be slothful. I have not excuses here, I only have myself and my family to interact with and I can choose what I let in or what I do not.

So as I spent time with my children today, I realized that this is not so bad. I have taken care to make sure that I can remain financially solvent in a crisis, I have kept my health in pretty good shape, my family likes being around each other and we have a lot of productive things we have been wanted to do for a long time, but just have not had the time. All in all, when I strip all the crap away, I am feeling pretty good about it.

Of course in another week we will probably be gouging each others eyes out and starting to see the shrubs around our house grow into sadistic animals and that damn boiler in the basement keeps building pressure…..

Guy Reams

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